{"id":3097,"date":"2025-07-18T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3097\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:27:08","slug":"are-they-having-an-affair-or-just-shy-the-couple-caught-on-coldplays-kiss-cam-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3097\/","title":{"rendered":"Are they \u2018having an affair\u2019 or just shy? The couple caught on Coldplay\u2019s kiss cam | Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is a moment of shock and mortification in Massachusetts<\/a> that has transfixed the internet.<\/p>\n

A camera at a Coldplay<\/a> concert near Boston sweeps the audience and picks out a canoodling couple.<\/p>\n

But as they see their image beamed on to the screen the man and woman do not kiss and wave. Instead, their eyes widen in horror and they break apart: she turns and buries her face in her hands, he ducks down to the ground, perhaps willing it to swallow him.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh what,\u201d Chris Martin, Coldplay\u2019s singer, said from the stage. \u201cEither they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re very shy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within minutes of the incident on Wednesday at the Gillette stadium in Foxborough, online sleuths were investigating and soon ruled out the second theory.<\/p>\n

The man was identified as Andy Byron, the married chief executive of Astronomer<\/a>, a software development company, and the woman was identified as Kristin Cabot, its head of human resources.<\/p>\n

The status of their relationship has not been confirmed but glee does not do justice to the speed with which the clip went viral and the schadenfreude it elicited. \u201cBusted!\u201d was a common refrain. \u201c#zerosympathy,\u201d was another.<\/p>\n

Byron sits on the board and has been the head of Astronomer, which is based in Cincinnati, since 2023. Cabot joined in November 2024 as chief people officer. In a press release that announced her hiring, Byron called her a proven leader. \u201cKristin\u2019s exceptional leadership and deep expertise in talent management, employee engagement and scaling people strategies will be critical as we continue our rapid trajectory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In the same press release Cabot lauded the company. \u201cI was energised in my conversations with Andy and the Astronomer leadership team about the opportunities that exist here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In a purported statement from Byron on Thursday, the executive apologised to his family and colleagues. However, the news site TMZ.com<\/a> cited a company representative who said the statement was fake.<\/p>\n

During the concert Chris Martin appeared to reference the kiss-cam couple and to anticipate the fallout. \u201cHoly shit,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201cI hope we didn\u2019t do something bad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is a moment of shock and mortification in Massachusetts that has transfixed the internet. A camera at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}